Mash-up feedback

I’m just a DJ, I’m not production minded, so I can’t give you any advice on how to correct this small beef I have. The vocals don’t cut through the mix very well. They sound a bit “under water” when they come in at the 3min mark, across the break, and again at 4:36. If I’m going to play a mashup, it has to be sharp and crisp because it must be better than what i could reproduce live on the fly with 4 decks at my fingertips. Also, strictly speaking as a DJ here, I prefer mashups that have a concept and stick to it. Bringing in elements from too many songs waters down that concept in my opinion…but it’s just an opinion. My inbox gets tons of these big EDM mashups with long intricate names so someone somewhere must be loving and playing them…so keep it up then.

My criticism isn’t meant to sound harsh, so I hope that it didn’t. I have no filter and tend to sound more blunt than I mean to most of the time.

Maybe that 4th track can be banged up in Audacity or something so it has sharper edges. I come across that all the time when doing the same thing on the fly…punch the mids out all you want, sometimes it just won’t cut through without sounding tinny if the source audio is limp.

I’m following you on Soundcloud now, so I can’t wait to hear the next version.